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Well, how should the external app blocker kick in *without* a connection being established first and some indication about what kind of file it is that is being requested? That's important, because, as the name says this component is only responsible for blocking external apps from kicking in and handling file types the browser can't handle itself.

Another important thing to mention here although, looking at your log snippet, I am not sure whether it fits: the Torbutton log output is not necessarily saying the truth about whether actual connections got made. In particular if it is indicating that speculative connections are made chances are pretty high that this did not happen. For an analysis see: comment:3:ticket:18762 which was affecting a bunch of bugs (e.g. #16324).

Well, how should the external app blocker kick in *without* a connection being established first and some indication about what kind of file it is that is being requested? That's important, because, as the name says this component is only responsible for blocking external apps from kicking in and handling file types the browser can't handle itself.

Okay, this description was not well worded. I now realize this is a little complex, after reading the bugs related to #25773. I am most worried about the "Save Link As..." situation. I think I'll close this bug as WONTFIX because this isn't really the problem.

Another important thing to mention here although, looking at your log snippet, I am not sure whether it fits: the Torbutton log output is not necessarily saying the truth about whether actual connections got made. In particular if it is indicating that speculative connections are made chances are pretty high that this did not happen. For an analysis see: comment:3:ticket:18762 which was affecting a bunch of bugs (e.g. #16324).

And just as a follow up on this, it is possible the OCSP request is not actually happening. I didn't confirm this with tcpdump, however the speculative connection and download is happening and I confirmed with tcpdump and server-side logs before opening #25773.